Tuesday 11th March

English lesson time again. This week was the beginning of the french students talking about their work in english. Oh and guess what - its raining again! I think the weather here is worse than in Norwich. So I got to the art school at 11am thinking I was going to be late and only Liz was there. 5 minutes later Grace rang to say she’d be about 30 seconds, and when she arrived she told us Mary had forgotten and was on her way from the internet cafe. We were about to head to the building we were in last week but luckily we bumped into Patricia who said we were meeting in Helenes work space. Once up there, Mary rang Grace to find out where we were and Grace went down to meet her. Then Liz got a call from Mary asking where Grace was. Turned out Mary was outside the wrong part of the art school! Once everyone had arrived Helene went first and told us about her large scale paintings. Her english is pretty good - i’m dreading when I have to do it in French. I feel a lot of planning will be involved! Basically she is inspired by the mountains and rocks on which she does lots of climbing and hiking, and that when hung on the wall the large scale seems like a cliff face. Then another girl went, whose name I didn’t catch. She wasn’t as good at english as Helene which made me feel better, and she told us about her interest in abnormal bodies and how she casts parts of the body in plaster then joined pieces together. After the crit, the girls decided to go for sushi at a japanese they had seen a few days ago. I really needed to email my work across but couldn’t resist some proper food. I had pasta with a tomato sauce again last night. The food was delicious. I had dumplings and avocado and salmon sushi. And then we all had banana splits. After our delicious lunch Liz showed me another internet cafe, very close to me, which was better than Flunch. You could just go and have a coffee and they have computers as well as just wi-fi. Apparently they do really good milkshakes. We had a hot chocolate and I emailed all my work to Kimberley - well I hope I’ve emailed it over, there were a lot of attachments! On the way home I went to see how much the bean-bag things were. 119 euros would you believe. I’m not getting one after all! Back at the flat I finished reading Atonement and tried to learn some french, ate supper and then watched Bride and prejudice again (I really need some more films). Half way through the film Morgane knocked on my door and asked if I was ok. She hadn’t seen me for a while she said and wanted to check on me. I have to admit I have been purposefully going to into the flat when she has gone out. I will have to be braver. She then showed me how to use the washing machine so I did some washing. Not too much because I only have a small washing line. My room looks like a laundry room now! At least I can now use the washing machine for small things such as t-shirts and underwear when I need too, but i’m going to the launderette with Mary and Liz tomorrow which is where I will do the towels and bed linen etc. I could never dry it in this room. Oh and guess what - surprise surprise it’s still pouring with rain.